As my last week in the mission has come I can honestly say "I didn't see that one coming." Someone told me in my first week to enjoy every moment in the mission because it goes by really fast and I didn't believe them I remember thinking "HA! I'm short a year and a half how does it go by fast if I'm still only in the first week!" boy was I wrong. I have been asked so many times how I feel and to be honest I feel like I'm dreaming. Now after 18 months of laboring side by side preaching the message of the love of God for his Sons and daughters I feel honored to have had this opportunity.

I never imagined that in so little time so many changes would happen, I never imagined feeling and recognizing the Holy Ghost so strongly in my life. Nor did I ever imagine that it would come to an end. Although I wont have a plaque to say I'm a missionary I know and God knows that my mission never ends, that even though I may be home or living on my own I need to share this gospel with everyone.

I can testify with my whole heart that THIS is the true church and the only way we can return to live forever with our families and our heavenly father. I know because He loves us so much that he has prepared a way for each and every one of us that if we ask in faith he will manifest the way to follow Him. I left without a testimony but I am not returning without one now, because I know without a doubt that He lives, that everything I had learned in my childhood until now was all true.

The mysteries of God are opened unto us when we obey Him and when we show really our love and devotion to Him. Many times I have cried for these people hard of hearts that say they follow Christ but their hearts and actions are so contradicting it brings sadness to my heart, for I can feel the blessing they have lost. As my last email I invite each and everyone of you if you have not been touched spiritually or if it has been a long time since you have talked to God, I invite you to get to know Him.

I know He will answer because if he answered my prayers and the prayers of many other faithful people, He will answer yours too. I testify that salvation is HARD WORK!!! and that's why so many fall and say that God doesn't exist because really its hard to follow him and salvation was never easy, but I can testify that it is worth every trial and every second. I love you all and as my last testimony before I return I leave the blessings and smiles of happiness that comes from a true conversion in Christ. Hope to see you all soon and I thank you all for your support these last 18 months.

I honestly couldnt be more happy with the things that are happing with the family and Jess preparing for a mission. This morning i was reading a couple stories from my geneology about Mary Lambert and the Leavitt family and i felt such a connection with them and their heartful stories.... In one of them a man was working in the barnyard and his brother was horsing around, playing with gun powder and so grandpa Leavitt i think... picked up the powder as it exploded in his hands burning his whole body but he kept cleaning it so that the barn wouldnt catch fire with all the animals inside and his brother... Later as he was being treated after 35 skin implants and a blessing from the priesthood he was able to recover with a promise that the parts of his body that werent touching temple garments would be repaired completely without scars, and God completed this promise. In every part that wasnt touched by the temple was completely repaired because of the power and authority of God and because of his remarkable faith.As i read this story this morning i couldnt help but think of the many changing moments of my personal life and that of my family. But i think the greatest changes that have happened are those spiritual ones. Many times we suffer trials trying to prepare for the spiritual blessings and we doubt in God and say "why me? why do i have these trials if im doing good?" and we cant see the need of sacrifice and trust in Him to continue strong with obedience and we loose sight of the important things that we have. However, if there is one thing i can testify of... its that He lives. That He loves us, and He like us is suffering while we are, He like us wants the spiritual blessings in our lives, and He like us is making sacrifices to obtain them. I have learned more about faith through an investigator named Olivia. This woman has literally put everything on the altar of sacrifice to be baptised because she knows this church is true and that its the path that God wants for her. Her husband doesnt support her and has threatened to divorce her, kick her and her daughter out of the house, cut her work so she doesnt have money to help her family, and yet she continues with faith. Never in my life have i seen someone so prepared and willing to follow God like her. May we all be a little more like Olivia. If you have read the 20th chapter of Matthew it talks about workers of the vineyard, and it says that many are called but only few are truely chosen. This made me think "which am i?" and if im one that is called then what will i do to be part of the chosen? The difference between the 2 is small but makes all the difference... and its the work that the chosen put forth that the called will say "its to hard, He asks to much of me" the chosen are those willing to say "how? what more? who?" Who needs me, what more do i lack and what more can i do and how will i do it. This concept is one i am learning now but i can testify that i am seeing the results.This week in the church truely helped me to see the importances of hard work and faith in the Lord. My companion and i have been told many times from our leaders that we are crazy to put such high numbers with vacations coming up, they told us they didnt think we could do it... And we said WHY NOT!? BRING IT ON! and we went to work. We had member cancel appointments we had days were we knocked doors all day and contacted people in the street, but every time we entered a house we gave all we had so they could feel the spirit. In church we recieved the fruit of our labors....we had 6 or more investigators in the church, and our ward attendance went up from 66 to 98 poeple in one week. I know without a doubt that when we are faithful and work dilligent God blesses us. Like my great grandpa sometimes we will get blown up with the trails of life, but if we have faith and trust in the blessing we have we will recieve the fruits of our labors. I love you all so much i am so proud of you Jessica i know you will be an incredible missionary of God.With all my loveKayla ​

I wanted to send a group email but..... my companion and I are putting together invitations for the baptism we are having in 2 weeks and flyers for a bible study class to try to find new investigators so I didn't have time to send a group email but the next time ill send one! pinky promise! haha We are working on things to help the work here and I had to report numbers and do a bunch of things the joys of being Sr. Companion.... But my week went well it was a little stressful but my companion and I are working hard and doing our best to bring people to the gospel!

I love you guys lots and I'm enjoying a lot of what I'm doing! haha but I promise that next week I will write a whole ton of what has been going on here and about the amazing experiences we have had! I'm thinking of you guys and love you all so much and I'm so so so sorry I couldn't write more!!! 😥😲 Sometimes the mission drives ya crazy hahahah

So today we had changes and now I'm with Hermana Hernandez from Guadalajara and Hermana Nieto went to Lindavista close to my last area. Today was getting to know my companion day and we went out to buy food and she likes fruit and veggies like I do and exercise! hoooooray! The last 2 weeks I'm going to pack and prepare everything to go and my ward is already planning the going away parties and everything its so weird!Please record Jessica when she gets her calling so I can see it and feel apart of the experience I'm so excited for her! Hey daddy I read the very same talk last week (Landing Ssafely in Turbulence) and actually cut out the picture of the airplane landing and put it in my planner to remind me of the very same thing how funny right? Thank you so much for your words of wisdom and love dad I always love hearing about your spiritual experiences they help me to keep going and pushing more and more! every day I wake up and I look at myself with Jesus and I say "just a little more today than yesterday" I have a new companion now and so I know there are many things to do and work towards! also we are preparing an investigator for baptism and I couldn't be more happy than I am now. Thank you for everything I love you lots!

​A few pictures...I cut my companions hair with kitchen scissors and it didn't turn out too bad haha!!​last day with comp. and bishops families. Service for an elder that is sick and our zone before changes.

I'm a little stressed because the mission is changing a lot of rules and my companion is getting a little lazy because she has a lot of time in the area and so I'm pretty sure she is ready to have changes... They are starting to cut activities and all the fun things we can do. Its super hard... Like for example to go buy on pdays we only have 1 hour, we cant have zone activities like the pictures I sent of playing today was us and other sisters we invited to come play and the other elders happened to be there already playing when we got there, but before we could invite all the zone to play on pdays and now we cant. The other fun thing was to go shopping and now we cant even do that without constantly looking at the time... its sad.... 😢 They always tell us that the real life is harder than the mission and in some ways its true because we don't worry as much about money and all that but at the same time its harder because there's a little more stress and not many things we can do to relieve stress.... but its preparing me for something to come in the future....

Olivia accepted to be baptized the 19 of March and so we are super excited for her and she has accepted everything we have taught and really is converted to Christ. She comes to church by herself! So I'm torn in 2 parts a little stressed and also very happy! like always haha

Sorry I am flying in very late but you wont fall asleep and forget to pick me up right?? haha

Every time someone asks me how much time I have in the mission and I say 16 months they just are shocked because they tell me "you still have the excitement and energy to be a new missionary in the mission wow!" and its been really awesome yesterday we received lots of gifts from members and I have 3 families who told me they will be throwing going away parties for me and to be honest I feel really content in everything... Like I'm still focused in this work because we are preparing to have 3 more baptisms before I head home and its really awesome to be working like this but at the same time its almost time hahaa if you know what I mean!

Are you ready? Because I'm not!!! ahhhhh hahaha in like 6 more weeks I'll be ready!

​Sorry guys I still haven't bought batteries for my camera yet soooooo there are no photos to send but picture me and my companion with smiles and lots of success!

This week was a little slow to be honest we had to drop a lot of investigators and so we went back to the drawing board and started searching for more and guess what we found some!!! One day we were with a couple of members and all our appointments fell through and literally we didn't know what to do so we thanked the members and we were getting ready to head home when we stopped by to buy quesadillas and started talking to the girl there...her name is Marisela and she's amazing... The following day we went and talked about the trinity and God and she cried and accepted to come to church Sunday which she followed through with and today as well came with us to the market to buy stuff...

We had divisions with our sister training leader Friday and I honestly wasn't looking forward to it to much but as we started working together we were looking for someone we contacted the other day and they weren't there, and I was at the point of giving up when Olivia came around the corner. We had contacted her a week before and when we went looking last week we couldn't find the house and thought that it was a false direction.

Olivia invited us in to her house and we started talking about the importance of God and how through Him we can feel peace and love and she also started to cry and she said she could feel the spirit talking to her telling her it was true and in the first lesson we invited her to baptism and she accepted. She wasn't able to come to church this Sunday but she is constantly praying to receive and answer to know if the church is true....So keep her in your prayers please!

We have been very blessed this week with finding new investigators that are amazing it has been a very challenging but uplifting week for me and my companion, and now this week we are still working to find more investigators also valentines day is approaching and my valentine will be my bed and the holy ghost because well I just really could use more one on one time with my bed and the holy ghost always makes me feel special...so with these 2 valentines ill be the happiest and luckiest missionary in the world haha.

Me and my companion will be making a dessert for a ward cook off this Friday we are making jello so you should all be so jealous of our jello we will definitely take first place haha.....Hope you all have a fabulous valentines weekend and share the love with all!

Thanks daddy for your email.... I feel so blessed to have you in my life as an example. in my patriarchal blessing its says that my main purpose is to be an example of Christ and his gospel for everyone and I couldn't be more proud for Jess and Hailey and their growth spiritually. I pray everyday that I can fulfill my purpose and be their example because I know I wasn't always a good role model to follow, and when I start slacking off or I feel like I cant do it anymore I think of my siblings and how they will follow my example and it kicks me in the pants every time to work harder.I'm super stoked that the broncos are in the super bowl again WHOOO GO BRONCOS!!! dad what are we going to do without Payton Manning.. I almost just cried thinking about it haha no just kidding.This week honestly was a little rough on our companionship because we had to drop a lot of our investigators and one of them was at the point of baptism but that's what happens in the mission sometimes its necessary to drop the people who aren't willing to progress and follow the lord completely in order to find those that are spiritually prepared. I think I will apply this when I start dating hahah

Its crazy to look back 10 years ago and think of all that happened all the challenges in order to get to the point we are at now as a family is amazing. I feel so blessed to have chosen to come to such a beautiful family and I'm so proud of us and the girls and so happy they aren't following my bad examples and are way more strong spiritually than I ever was at their age. I love you so much see you in 9 weeks!

Mom I will only say one thing....the badge never comes off, it just turns invisible.... when I come home and I am released as a full time missionary i am only being set apart to be a missionary for the eternity. This mission never ends. Its just like changing areas again, you change location find new families, have a new companion and you get to work. That's what I am going to do, because that is my purpose. I was reading my patriarchal blessing the other day and it says my purpose is to serve, be an example, and share the gospel with everyone and I know that the habits I am making right now in the mission will stay with me afterwards. I used to worry a lot about what I'm going to do with my life long mission when I get back but now i just feel a peace that as long as I keep the habits learned like studying the scriptures, saying my prayers and loving those around me, going to church every Sunday, and helping those in need that the iron rod wont be hard to follow. I know that the spirit wont be as strong as he is now but that doesn't worry me, because I have finally found my testimony. One of my converts gave me and my companions wedding rings and she told us that she may never get the chance to be sealed in the temple with her husband but that she wanted us to keep in mind our eternal goals to go to the temple. If you look in my closet there should be a white hanger there with a booklet I revived in young women's and have kept for a long time. and it stands there to remind me that a temple dress will someday be hung there. I have an immovable testimony that this gospel is true and that there is no other way to inherit the kingdom of God without the blessings of this gospel. Right now I am listening to the Mormon tabernacle choir and as I was listening a small message came on that said "pray more worry less" I love that because one of the apostles said that we should "doubt our doubts before we doubt our faith" there are so many people here that we have taught that have felt the changes that come from the gospel of Jesus Christ but doubt so much because they have fear to change. I know that change is necessary to become more like God and that when we put our complete trust in Him the small things don't matter anymore because we know he is all powerful and all knowing. And that His plan is perfect we just have to accept it and do what he tells us to do.This last week with my companion we woke up a little late and felt so bad for it. As missionaries we have a strict schedule to wake up before 6:30 and so when we woke up a couple minutes later the guilt took over us both and we decided we needed a change in us both so we set goals to be more obedient, and its hard to be exactly obedient because Satan is against us in every step but together we have learned how to give our all to God and do everything in our power to be exactly obedient to the mission rules. Sometimes its like this in our lives we know what we aren't doing but sometimes we have pride and don't want to see the changes necessary but when we humble ourselves and really but REALLY apply the atonement of Christ its easier to accept His will and find a change of heart and even though its hard at times I can testify that we are happier and our lives are more enjoyable!Yesterday in Sacrament meeting I was listening to the sacrament prayers and thinking what it meant to take His name upon us and always remember Him. I came to the conclusion that it as members of His church we literally are His representatives in all we do, say, and think we are representing him. And I think if we remembered that every moment of every day we wouldn't do half the things we do now. Sometimes its frustrating to be on a mission because you have to live the sadness of the agency of others when they decide to choose the worldly things over God, but if there is one thing I do know its that when someone does change their lives to follow Christ its one of the most rewarding feelings and things to witness. And to be honest I love being a missionary, its by far my favorite and most rewarding time I have experienced in my life and I know when I get home the same feeling will only continue and grow because its where I will be called to next, and there is a new purpose awaiting me. I love the quote you shared about the tree of life and its interesting because the other day I was reading about Lehi's dream and contemplating how it is we obtain this and at what part of the rod I am at? Am I just starting? Have I passed through the mist? or am I on the other end getting ready to partake in the fruit?.... Who knows right all I know is that no matter where I am at in the rod that I am happy because I am still enduring to be like my Savior and I am following the gospel. I love you guys so much and I'm so grateful to have a family so amazing like you guys. Believe, Obey, Endure, LoveWith all my loveHermana Makayla Jammet​

So mom asked to know more about my area and my companion so i am in a ward called Acueducto in the stake Arbolillo and its a stake and zone of pretty much sister misionaries and there are only 4 elders in our whole zone poor things! The people in our area are a little bit hard hearted to get to know them but once your in the door the rest is history and they become your best friends. The members here are AMAZIMG!!! we always have members with us to go to the lessons and they cook american style with salsa on the side so its the best and they always give you dessert afterwards so its awesome!

My companion is super funny she always has jokes to tell and we are actually really similar and get along really well! She is kind of crazy like sometimes she just randomly yells out things and there is always something going on in her head. We are working hard to help a couple of the investigators that the missionaries were teaching before get baptised so its a lot of hard work and trust in the lord to keep us going.

I dont know if you guys believe in UFOs and aliens but i now do...because we have seen a lot of really strange things flying in the air and you know how at night you can tell its a plane because it has front lights to see where its going, well there have been a couple of flying objects that fly very differently than airplanes and dont have head lights....

Anyways i am in my last 12 weeks of the mission and im loving it there is lots of work to be done and lots of people to teach here and im really enjoying it. Something i read the other day that i really liked was that "when we return from the mission we turn in the name tag and trade it for the eternal one" That is to say that the mission never ends because when we were baptised we took His name upon us and we commited to be His representatives and this includes sharing His gospel with those who dont have the knowledge of this great gospel. So i invite you all to put on your Missionary badge and get to work! Love you all and i know the church is true!